"We haven't been playing well lately," said Masuk coach Jeff Seymour, whose club is 2-4. "This was a good chance for us to get a victory and work on some of the things that we needed to work on."

Masuk jumped on the Bulldogs early by opening a 4-0 lead into the second quarter.

"I thought we played so poorly early with our ballhandling," Bunnell coach Dick Cerone said. "We let it get away early."

Bunnell did bounce back and show some fight, scoring two goals to make it 4-2, the closest it would get all game.

"We fought ourselves back in the second quarter," Cerone said. "But in the second half we just couldn't control the ball. We regressed a little."

Bacarella scored three of his goals in the first half to get Masuk off to the fast start.

"I just kept moving my feet and worked to get myself open," Bacarella said. "I knew if I get my hands free, and I have a pretty good left-handed shot, so when I got my chances I buried it."

"Frank is quite the player," Seymour said. "He had six goals the other night against Brookfield and the four tonight (Thursday). This is the kind of production we need from him."

Bunnell struggled getting shots off and running their offense all day.

Bacarella talked about what Masuk was able to do.

"We possessed the ball a lot and worked it around," he said. "We were able to dominate the face-off and extend out on them. They are not the best team stick-handle wise and our defense is very good at getting on their hands so we were able to possess and pressure them all game."

For Seymour it was as simple as possession.

"We've been working on holding the ball," he said. "If you hold the ball that slows things down."